On April 1st, SellerAction launched on X to organize Amazon sellers around a federal regulatory deadline. Ten days. Fifteen posts. Zero violations.
On April 11th, X Corp. suspended our account based on an anonymous third-party report. No specific conduct was identified. No evidence was presented. We appealed immediately. The denial arrived in 90 seconds — before any human could have read a single word of our appeal. And quietly, without explanation, the charge escalated from “inauthentic behavior” to “multiple and repeat violations” between the suspension notice and the denial.
We filed a formal complaint with the Florida Attorney General this week under the Florida Digital Bill of Rights. Reference: DT5TG5.
We’re not alone in noticing the pattern. This week, technology professor Enrique Dans wrote about Meta blocking law firms from advertising on its own platform — firms seeking to represent victims of Meta’s addictive design practices. His conclusion: it was never about the conduct. It was about stopping the organization before it could build momentum.
Sound familiar?
Amazon sellers are facing a 3.5% FBA surcharge that takes effect Thursday, April 17th. We built SellerAction to give the people absorbing that cost a documented, credible voice with regulators. One of the world’s largest platforms moved to silence that voice ten days after it launched.
They didn’t succeed.
The petition is live. The FTC and Senate Commerce Committee submission deadline is Thursday. Every signature between now and then is a direct response to every platform that has ever decided that organized sellers are a problem to be managed rather than people to be heard.
One platform can silence one account. It can’t silence 5,000 sellers on the record.
Sign the petition before April 17. selleraction.org/emergency-action
🔒 Your identity stays with us. We only share anonymized totals with regulators — Amazon never sees your personal data.